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Subject:RE: writing tests are for wussies... From:"Jane Carnall" <jane -dot- carnall -at- digitalbridges -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Tue, 21 May 2002 14:10:42 +0100
-Keith Cronin wrote:
>So I'm wondering: does any person or organization "own" the standards used
to call a test an IQ test? Or can I string together a bunch of questions
and call it the Keithomatic IQ Test? Is it okay if mine tests the
subject's ability to remember lines from old movies, and to be able to
identify Heineken in a blindfolded beer-tasting test?<
To answer your questions, in order:
No. Yes. Yes, yes.
Try "The Spark" IQ test, www.thespark.com .... <g> it's different.
If you're interested in the history of IQ tests, I more-than-ever recommend
the late Stephen Jay Gould's fine book, _The Mismeasure of Man_. (Dick
Margulis and Justin Ressler kindly wrote to me offlist to give me the sad
news: Gould died yesterday of cancer.)
Jane Carnall
Apologies for the long additional sig: it is added automatically and outwith
my control.
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